Chronicle of the Years of Fire
Burning with passion, poetry, and a nation’s fervent spirit of resistance, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina’s stirring revolutionary epic vividly dramatizes the pivotal decades leading up to Algeria’s War of Independence through the harrowing saga of Ahmed (Yorgo Voyagis), a proud farmer seeking a dignified life, whose experience of brutal oppression and systemic injustice leads him, like so many others, to take a stand against the seemingly indomitable might of French colonialism. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival, this awe-inspiring landmark of Arab cinema is an at once personal and expansive vision of a country awakening from despair to build an unbreakable movement of liberation.
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Collector's Set
Cast
- Yorgo Voyagis
- Ahmed
- Larbi Zekkal
- Si Larbi Ben M’hidi
- Cheikh Nourredine
- Akli, Ahmed’s blacksmith friend
- Hassan El-Hassani
- El Hadj, grocer
- Leila Shenna
- Ahmed’s wife
- Sid Ali Kouiret
- Saïd, Ahmed’s cousin
- Malik Lakhdar-Hamina
- Ahmed’s children
- Tarek Lakhdar-Hamina
- Merwan Lakhdar-Hamina
- Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
- Miloud
Credits
- Director
- Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
- Story
- Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
- Scenario
- Tewfik Fares
- Scenario
- Rachid Boudjedra
- Producer
- Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
- Composer
- Philippe Arthuys
- Cinematographer
- Marcello Gatti
- Editor
- Youcef Tobni
- Set decorator
- Hassen Soufi
- Costume designer
- Mohammed Bouzit
- Makeup
- Manlio Rocchetti
- Camera operator
- Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
A scene from Chronicle of the Years of Fire
